Guest headnet2@googlemail.com Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can it be used with other servers ie Yahoo? Richard
Guest Mark Shroyer Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: Avoiding Junk Mail On 2007-07-20, headnet2@googlemail.com <headnet2@googlemail.com> wrote: > AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from > addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or > can it be used with other servers ie Yahoo? > > Richard As far as I know, neither GMail nor Yahoo Mail provide a straightforward way to only accept messages which are purportedly from senders in your address book. However, this is not a widely accepted method of blocking spam because (1) the From: header is easy to forge, and (2) what if someone new wants to send you an email? What GMail and Yahoo *do* support are two effective and flexible means of recognizing non-spam messages, Sender Policy Framework and DomainKeys/DKIM. You can read about them here: http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys http://www.openspf.org/Introduction Since you're asking about Yahoo in comparison with AOL, I take it that you're considering switching email service providers. In that case, I highly recommend GMail -- it's very good all around, and its spam filter is top notch (which would make sense, come to think of it; filtering spam does fit within the company's core competency of organizing information). -- Mark Shroyer http://markshroyer.com/
Guest Mark Shroyer Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: Avoiding Junk Mail On 2007-07-20, Mark Shroyer <usenet-mail@markshroyer.com> wrote: > Since you're asking about Yahoo in comparison with AOL, I take it > that you're considering switching email service providers. In that > case, I highly recommend GMail -- it's very good all around, and its > spam filter is top notch (which would make sense, come to think of > it; filtering spam does fit within the company's core competency of > organizing information). And now I notice that you posted the original message from a Google account, making this entire paragraph superfluous :) -- Mark Shroyer http://markshroyer.com/
Guest Tim Slattery Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: Avoiding Junk Mail headnet2@googlemail.com wrote: >AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from >addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can >it be used with other servers ie Yahoo? Most email providers and POP3/SMTP email clients have mail filtering capabilities. White lists, black lists, keyword or expressing scanning, even Bayesian filtering are very widespread. -- Tim Slattery MS MVP(DTS) Slattery_T@bls.gov http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
Guest Plato Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Avoiding Junk Mail headnet2@googlemail.com wrote: > > AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from > addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can > it be used with other servers ie Yahoo? ps an account at email.com has been working quite well for me also. They seem to hate/block spam very well also.
Guest Plato Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Avoiding Junk Mail headnet2@googlemail.com wrote: > > AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from > addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can > it be used with other servers ie Yahoo? gmail by default does quite a good job at stopping spam by defrault. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
Guest Allen Posted July 21, 2007 Posted July 21, 2007 Re: Avoiding Junk Mail Plato wrote: > headnet2@googlemail.com wrote: >> AOL have a facility with their e-mail that only accepts mail from >> addresses in the indivual's address book Is this unique to AOL or can >> it be used with other servers ie Yahoo? > > gmail by default does quite a good job at stopping spam by defrault. > Too bad they don't block the spam their users send out. I see more spam with gmail addresses than from anywhere else. Allen
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